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Brutal training for bodyguards in China

Instructor Marco Borges, center, corrects a student during a bodyguard exercise on Jan. 16 at the Genghis Security Academy in Beijing. Trainees wake before dawn to practice martial arts, marksmanship and evasive driving under the instruction of Borges, a former Portuguese special forces soldier, to become elite bodyguards protecting Chinese businesses around the world.

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Brutal training for bodyguards in China

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Instructor Marco Borges, center, corrects a student during a bodyguard exercise on Jan. 16 at the Genghis Security Academy in Beijing. Trainees wake before dawn to practice martial arts, marksmanship and evasive driving under the instruction of Borges, a former Portuguese special forces soldier, to become elite bodyguards protecting Chinese businesses around the world.
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Bodyguard students practice with training pistols during an exercise at the Genghis Security Academy.
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A student aims a training pistol.
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A trainee cries as he is briefed on his performance by a coach on Jan. 12.
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Bodyguard students battle during a combat exercise on Jan. 8 in a classroom at the Genghis Security Academy.
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Instructor Marco Borges, center, corrects a student during a bodyguard exercise on Jan. 16 at the Genghis Security Academy in Beijing. Trainees wake before dawn to practice martial arts, marksmanship and evasive driving under the instruction of Borges, a former Portuguese special forces soldier, to become elite bodyguards protecting Chinese businesses around the world.